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Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media /

"Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media examines how creative works have depicted what it means to be a deaf or hard of hearing child in the modern world. In this collection of critical essays, scholars discuss works that cover wide-ranging subjects and themes: growing up deaf i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Yenika-Agbaw, Vivian S. (Editor ), Stephens, John, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Deaf characters and deaf cultures in texts for children / John Stephens and Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
  • Part 1: Narratives of deafness
  • Writing the hearing line: representing childhood, deafness, and hearing through creative nonfiction / Jessica Kirkness
  • Mandy: a critical look at the portrayal of a deaf character / Cynthia Neese Bailes
  • Caped crusaders and lip-reading Pollyannas: the narrative and ideological function of humor in representations of deaf culture for young people / Nerida Wayland
  • "The deaf man turned a deaf ear": metaphors of deafness and the critical gaze in the works of la Comtesse de Segur, 1858-1865 / Helene Charderon
  • Subjectivity, theory of mind, and the creation of deaf characters in fiction / John Stephens
  • "The only thing you can't do is hear": Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby / Helene Ehriander
  • Part 2: Deaf cultures in visual texts
  • "We are just as confused and lost as she is": the primacy of the graphic novel form in exploring conversations around deafness / Sara Kersten-Parrish
  • Childhood spaces and deaf culture in Wonderstruck and A Quiet Place / Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
  • (Mis-)communication scripts and cognition in Japanese deaf fictional film A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) / Helen Kilpatrick
  • Sociopolitical contexts for the representation of deaf youth in contemporary South Korean film / Sung-Ae Lee
  • Local Hawai'i children's literature: revitalizing Hawai'i sign language at the edge of extinction / Nina Benegas, Stuart Ching, and Jann Pataray-Ching
  • Part 3: Deafness and cultural difference
  • Intersections of deaf and queer embodiment in fiction for young people: "able-bodied sexual subjects" / Josh Simpson
  • Didacticism or seeking harmony with nature: contrasting presentations of deafness in contemporary Chinese children's literature / Lijun Bi and Xiangshu Fang
  • Examining deaf culture in coming-of-age novels within a multicultural framework / Angela Schill
  • Coda. From doctors' offices to doctor of philosophy: a deaf woman's journey / Corinne Walsh.